A spoonful of Jeff Daniels' brew helps the 'Escanaba in Love' veggies go down Hometownlife, D1 .*>* Filler 75 cents WINNERS OF STATE AND NATIONAL AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE www.hometownlife.com 4 n*sr "**> entertainment * license request BY SUE MASON Angelo Plakas, National STAFF WRITER Amusement has created a unique situation for the city. The liquor A request for an entertainment license it plans to transfer from a ft license to allow a Westland the­ bar in Detroit, under current state PHOTOS BY BILL BRESLEf? j STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ater to offer dinner and drinks statute doesn't allow for alcoholic with a movie has been postponed beverages to be served with "a First-year teacher Stacy Gunther works with Jasmin Campos in her second-grade classroom at Jefferson-Barns Elementary indefinitely by the Westland City monologue, dialogue or motion School in Westland. Council; picture." The decision came Monday "It wants to do what Emagine evening just hours after National (Theater) in Novi is doing " he Amusements Inc. requested that said. "If the Tigers made it to the •••• a vote on the transfer of liquor playoffs and they got a live feed, .•.-* * • license and a new entertainment they wouldn't be able to show it. license be pulled from the agenda. They can't do anything without the It also followed a study session entertainment license." called for by Council President Plakas has been "going back ' Charles Pickering who expressed and forth" with the company in concern about the potential for an effort to hammer out a side "topless and nude activity." agreement that would protect the "The bottom line is I'm con­ city from the possibility of topless cerned that they're using the or nude entertainment. Saying entertainment license to put on that he wants something that has entertainment I believe is geared some teeth in it, he admitted that for adults," he said. "I think we are National Amusements is balking at going in the wrong direction." some of the verbiage. According to Mayor William "We're still arguing over the Wild, National Amusements is terms," he said. "We don't want a tacy Gunther and Erin ft. vi *"V. looking to revamp the Showcase place that has zoning and build­ Gould were so excited about Cinema on Wayne Road to have ing code violations, we want to tie Sthe first day of school, they stadium seating and serve dinner it together with the license, so if arrived early at Jefferson-Barns and drinks during movies. The there is a problem, we can cure it Elementary School... really early. plan calls for going from seven quickly." But instead of lining up in front screens to six screens. Pickering, however, maintained of school, they marched right in "I feel this is an important that the theater would be "an adult and went to their classrooms. project for long-term prospects entertainment center." Gunther went to her second- in the city," Wild said. "National "For us to say yes the first time grade classroom and Gould to Erin Gould, who shows first-grader Trent Nunn what to do in a workbook, kept Amusements has an aging facil­ ever to allow an entertainment first grade. reminding herself what to do in the hours leading up to the start of school Tuesday. ity, a limited market. They're not license opens the door to the wrong "I was so nervous I think I slept looking to get into legal problems, kind of entertainment, that's why one hour last night," said Gunther. chose in elementary school. "I loved it. I got smiley faces; they're looking at a way to survive we keep saying no," he said. "This "All weekend I had dreams about For Gunther, the choice was I jumped off the jungle gym and in the marketplace." school." made her first day of preschool. got a sad face," said Gunther, According to City Attorney Please see SHOWCASE, A2 "I was up every hour on the hour," Arms and legs extended, she tried who is teaching second grade at said Gould. "I kept reminding to prevent her grandmother from the same school she didn't want myself to do different things." getting her inside the school. It to enter so many years ago. "In Gunther and Gould aren't stu­ didn't work and once inside the my interview, I told them my dents at the Westland school, they're school, what she encountered led dream job would !>e a second- first-year teachers. Tuesday marked to her to decide she wanted to be a Ceremony the beginning of a career they both teacher. Please see 1ST DAY, A2 remembers duo probation for embezzlement Almost six years ago, Americans fourth year for the service which watched in horror as passenger air­ remembers those who perished in liners were used to topple the twin the attacks, as well as honors those BY DA R RE LI. CLEM Their pleas averted a trial Krajewski and Ware then Krajewski and Ware fared towers of the World Trade Center who continue to serve and protect STAFF WRITER in Wayne County Circuit put Ware's name on the well considering that they in New York City and to crash our community. Court on charges they stole documents and cashed them could have faced penal­ into the Pentagon in suburban Pastor Kurt Lambart of St. A former Westland money from Willow Creek for their own financial gain, ties ranging up to 14 years Washington, D.C. Matthew Lutheran Church in apartment worker and her Apartments, on Newburgh Borisch said. in prison for the charges A fourth plane crashed into a Westland will preside over the boyfriend will remain on south of Ford, where The couple, who had lived against them. field in Pennsylvania, the planned memorial service. It will include probation for five years for Krajewski had worked as an at Willow Creek, had been Under terms of their pro­ attack foiled by the passengers. the singing of patriotic songs by embezzling money from ten­ assistant manager. ordered to stand trial after bation, they are supposed to Those acts of terrorism claimed the St. Matthew Lutheran School ants who thought they had Krajewski had been they waived their right to a not break any laws, not leave more than 3,000 lives. Cherub Choir, comprised of chil­ paid their rent. accused of taking personal preliminary hearing in May the state without asking On the sixth anniversary of that dren in grades 3-5. The Jubilee Sharon Krajewski, 41, and checks and money orders in Westland 18th District judicial permission, report day, now known simply as 9/11, Choir, which includes students in Darnell Ware, 44, learned from renters who didn't Court. Krajewski had been monthly to a probation the City of Westland will host a grades 6-8, also will perform. their fate in late August after make them payable Willow fired from her job amid officer, make restitution to memorial service, conducted by "What happened on Sept. 11 can­ pleading guilty to embez­ Creek. Some tenants told accusations she stole money Willow Creek and pay cer­ St. Matthew Lutheran Church and not — and will not — be forgotten," zling $1,000 to $20,000 authorities they were asked between last December and tain fees, such as court and School. Westland Mayor William R. Wild and to an additional charge not to write the name of the April. attorney costs. The program, scheduled for 11 said. "There isn't one community in of uttering and publishing, apartment complex on the "People started getting a.m., will be held on the south our nation that was immune to the which involves tampering financial documents, police notices that their rent wasn't [email protected] steps of Westland City Hall at effects of that day. This is our com­ with financial documents. Sgt. Steve Borisch has said. paid," Borisch said. (734)953-2110 36601 Ford Road. This marks the munity's way of paying respect." D The Observer & Eccentric INDEX For Home Newspapers APARTMENTS B12 Delivery call: AUTOMOTIVE B11 Volume 43 (866) 887-2737 CROSSWORD PUZZLE B12 Number 29 HOMETOWNLIFE D1 Any Dinner Bill of $15 or more Dine in Only Not applicable toward I JOBS B9 snack hours, steak night or alcohole j MOVIE GUIDE E14 Expires 9/20/07 # OBITUARIES A14 CO-OP SERVICES •ma-wtie <tn» r*» w*t «•*•««•• •» wwum* xpw sum H«-n# OPINION A10 (CREDIT UNION PINK D4 ..Banking the Credit Union Way! STEAK NIGHT REAL ESTATE B3 www.cscu.org SPORTS . CI 800.321.8570 A2 <W) Observer S Eccentric | Thursday, September 6,2007 LOCAL NEWS www.hometownlife.com with a ball before getting into 1ST DAY the curriculum. My mom made Lights... Camera... Action FROM PAGE A1 a book of me in first grade and I read them some of that. It their previous fiknMongolKing, in produc­ grade teacher at a school like made me more real to them." Indie film producers find ing and packaging the DVDs and customer Jefferson-Barns and I gpt it. It Like Gunther, it was an early service. was perfect." experience with her first- and Gunther, who gradu­ second-grade teachers that led locales close to home COLLEGE START ated from Eastern Michigan her to choose teaching. Vallone ventured into filmmaking while at University in April, admits she "I was so nervous going to BY SUE MASON EMU. He enrolled in the film program for the was nervous when the school school and they understood STAFF WRITER experience and left before getting his degree. bell rang, but says her students that," said Gould.